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Re:Black Boxes Are Key to Solving Plane Crashes–Why Aren't T... by HWR_14 on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:00PM (#36285614)
Do we care about preventing a disturbed captain from preventing recording? They can already crash the plane and kill everyone on board. I don't really care about their record keeping in that instance.
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Re:Black Boxes Are Key to Solving Plane Crashes–Why Aren't T... by pas on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:17PM (#36285793)
it seems much more important to have a clean and unambiguous record than to start the usual finger pointing
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Re:Black Boxes Are Key to Solving Plane Crashes–Why Aren't T... by sidlls on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:44PM (#36298890)
It's necessary to rule out mechanical and other system failures, i.e., to provide evidence that it was a disturbed pilot and not some other cause. Aviation incident investigations are quite thorough--orders of magnitude more rigorous than in the software industry in general.
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